Help For The Stressed

Yesterday I began my new sermon series: A Season Of Hope

The Holy Spirit proved His leading.

HELP FOR THE STRESSED was well recieved and I believe the church experienced salvation, deliverance, and healing!

I had several members approach me with stress scenarios, even desperate needs that found Hope in God's Word.

Stress is a Hope Killer that can only be remedied with God's Word!

Here's some practical wisdom (a small peice of yesterday's teaching)...

1. Stop Exceeding Reasonable Limits

"Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received (as a Gift) from God? You are not your own, you were bought with a price (purchased with a priciousness and paid for, made His own). So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body." 1Corinthians 6:19-20 amp

IMAGINATION IS AS POWERFUL AS REALITY

"For as he thinks in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23:7

2. Obedience is the key to relieving stress

"If you will listen diligently to the voice of the LORD your God, being watchful to do all his commandments which I command you this day, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth...And the LORD shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath." Deuteronomy 28:1,13

GOD CARES DEEPLY ABOUT THE LITTLE THINGS

"For God sets Himself against the proud (the insolent, the overbearing, the disdainful, the presumptuous, the boastful) - (and He opposes, frustrates, and defeats them), but gives grace (favor, blessing) to the humble." 1Peter 5:5

3. Set up for BLESSING

"Oh that they had such a (mind and) heart in them always (reverently) to fear Me and keep all MY commandments, that it might go well with them and with their children forever." Deuteronomy 5:29

IF WE WILL BUT EXALT JESUS WE WON'T BE EXHAUSTED

"Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the CREATOR of the ends of the earth, does not faint or grow weary; there is no searching of His understanding. He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has not might He increases strength (causing it to multiply and making it to abound). Even youths shall faint and be weary, and (selected) young men shall feebly stumble and fall exhausted; But those who wait for the LORD (who expect, look for, and hope in Him) shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up (close to God) as eagles (mount up to the sun); they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired." Isaiah 40:28-31

If you want more help along these lines I recommend Joyce Meyer's Emotional Help Books. The LORD has used her teaching to help me personally and with preparing this series...